WELCOME

Welcome to all who are among this first post in our Thin Places and Thin Moments Blog, which is produced and encouraged by a few friends I met in the Richmond Christians Who Write (RCWW) writers group in Richmond, Virginia. Thanks to Rev Tom Lacy, Mary Moss and her library of friends. Thanks too, to all of those other fans, family and friends out there who shared their experiences of “Thin” times with me …when the veil between this mundane world and the spiritual world momentarily became thin to them as it has for many others throughout history. For it is during those times – that we surely sense again the Holy Cosmic Spirit whispering compelling adorations to us through our humbled human spirit. They are among the times when that spirit connection becomes genuine and authentic.

Our goal through this blog is to nurture those times, those moments and those places which foster that spiritual bond – and to uncover the fabric, structure and composition of those nurturing times – so that we might help in assembling other and new Thin Places and Moments for others through which they can use, celebrate, learn, work and worship in harmony. We invite you to join us.

This fostering search is a primary interest of mine and might be described as a process to discover purposeful recipes which cultivate spiritual awareness and spiritual bonding that appear to be built into certain places, in both man-made and natural settings. Not too long ago, five key ingredients in Thin Place recipes jumped out at me loud and clear one day after a ten year pursuit to determine how they are different from ordinary places or might we say “thick places.” Those five ingredients are described in detail in my book, Thin Places and Five Clues in Their Architecture.

Many of those who read my book later mentioned or e-mailed me that reading about some of my Thin Place experiences made them remember times in their lives when they happened upon a similar Thin Place – or a Thin Moment, when they lost their sense of time, or they had the strange feeling that they had been at this place before…but really hadn’t – or it appeared to them that the astonishing beauty at a particular place in front of them seemed to be presenting them with a message. We here would like to hear about your Thin Place or Thin Moment experiences. Do you now recall similarities of place, or word, or music, or silence, or other influences at those times or places? What happened?

Thanks,
~ Page

C. Page Highfill, AIA Emeritus
Architect (ret), author, artist, speaker